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AssigneesMitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives
InventorsMasayuki Hayashi, Yasushi Ifuku, Hirofumi Uchiyama, Yosimi Kaga, Akifumi Nakamori
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An apparatus for extracting the pulp from citrus fruits for the preparation of a fruit drink containing separate juice vesicles or sacs of the pulp comprises a plurality of clamps mounted on the periphery of a rotary drum to hold the halves of the fruits each divided into two across the core, with the cut surfaces exposed, a rotating shaft located opposite to one of the clamps in gripping position and substantially aligned to the core of each clamped half of the fruits for rotation about the common axis, and a nozzle having an opening provided radially with respect to the core of each halved fruit and attached to the end of the rotating shaft, whereby the pulp in the form of separate juice sacs is forced out of the halves by a jet of fluid from the nozzle.
An apparatus for extracting pulp from citrus fruits, comprising means including a plurality of clamps mounted on the periphery of a rotary member for holding halves of the citrus fruit cut across their respective cores and bringing them into an extraction position with their cut surfaces exposed, and extraction means at said extraction position for rotating a fluid jet against said cut surfaces to extract pulp from said halves, said extraction means including a rotatable shaft substantially coaxial with said halves held in said extraction position and two nozzles rotated by said shaft and each having an elongate opening extending radially across the exposed surface of said halves held in said extraction position, said two nozzles being offset in the radial direction of the halves in said extraction position whereby one of said nozzles will direct a fluid jet toward the outer portions of said halves while the othet nozzle will direct a fluid jet toward the inner portions of said halves during rotation of said shaft.
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